Toshirō Mifune — Actor (120)
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Jakoman and Tetsu (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ジャコ萬と鉄
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Toshirō Mifune / Ryūnosuke Tsukigata …
other title: Jakoman et Tetsu / ジャコ萬と鉄
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
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Sword for Hire (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
戦国無頼
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Sengoku burai / 戦国無頼 …
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
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Sasaki Kojiro (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
佐々木小次郎
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Tomiemon Otomo / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 佐々木小次郎
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as the legendary master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for the first time and essentially sets the standard for future portrayals.This masterpiece is based on the original story as written by noted author Murakami Genzo and is far superior to any other versions. Following Kojiro from his earliest days through his fateful meeting with Musashi, this movie is filled with exciting and dramatic moments culminating in the best version of the final duel ever seen on film.
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Safari 5000 (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
栄光への５０００キロ
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 栄光への５０００キロ
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.
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Lowly Ronin (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
素浪人罷り通る
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Toshirō Mifune / Kahori Takeda …
other title: 素浪人罷り通る
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV movie. The wandering ronin is reminiscent of his most famous role as the samurai without a name in Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro". He travels about Japan, and while he may seek happiness, violence and tragedy always cross his path. This time, he reluctantly agrees when a girl hires him to kill a local offical who has unfairly taxed her villagers. But he soon discoves that not all is at it appears when he finds a direct link to his past.
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Fort Graveyard (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
血と砂
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Toshirō Mifune / Makoto Satō …
other title: 血と砂
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
柳生武芸帳
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Koji Tsuruta …
other title: Ninjitsu / 柳生武芸帳 …
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
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Hell in the Pacific (1968) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Hell in the Pacific
director: 约翰·保曼 actor: 李·马文 / 三船敏郎
other title: 决斗太平洋 / Duel dans le Pacifique …
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.
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Shinsengumi (1969) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
新選組
director: 泽岛忠 actor: Toshirō Mifune / 小林桂树 …
other title: 新选组 / 新選組 …
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
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The Last Embrace (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
抱擁
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Yoshiko Yamaguchi / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 抱擁
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.
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Snow Trail (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
銀嶺の果て
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura …
other title: La Montagne d'argent / 銀嶺の果て …
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.